Trickbot is not a new threat, but it is an evolving one. The latest twist of the banking Trojan knife as far as Windows 10 users are concerned is the addition of new methods to not only evade but actually disable Windows Defender security protection. As reported on July 14 in Forbes , Trickbot is a particularly stealthy banking Trojan that has been around since 2016. Since then, it was thought to have compromised no less than 250 million email accounts in an effort to distribute the malware payload. That payload includes the stealing of online banking credentials and cryptocurrency wallets. Microsoft has always been front and center as far as Trickbot attack campaigns are concerned, with weaponized Word and Excel files being a favored approach. The latest campaign is targeting Windows 10 users and implementing a highly detailed and convincing, but fake nonetheless, Office 365 page to prompt for browser updates that install the Trojan itself. Disab...
What's the simplest Unix command you know? There's echo , which prints a string to stdout and true , which always terminates with an exit code of 0. Among the rows of simple Unix commands, there's also yes . If you run it without arguments, you get an infinite stream of y's, separated by a newline: y y y y (...you get the idea) What seems to be pointless in the beginning turns out to be pretty helpful : yes | sh boring_installation.sh Ever installed a program, which required you to type "y" and hit enter to keep going? yes to the rescue! It will carefully fulfill this duty, so you can keep watching Pootie Tang . Writing yes Here's a basic version in... uhm... BASIC. 10 PRINT "y" 20 GOTO 10 And here's the same thing in Python: while True : print ( " y " ) Simple, eh? Not so quick! Turns out, that program is quite slow. python yes.py | pv -r > /dev/null [4.17MiB/s] Compare that with the built-in v...